The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray gets modernized with its back-axle-mounted variant of the new eight-speed automatic. While we are strong believers that manual transmissions supply a more nuanced and higher amount of control and organic motorist participation, it is no secret that high performance automobiles are frequently more rapid and faster during limitation testing when equipped with the automatic gearboxes. Lamborghini and Ferrari have gone just to automatic firearms, and the 911 Turbo and the new Porsche 911 GT3 are automatic- . One might say by offering an automatic in the coming Z06--a version that was restricted to manual transmission offerings before that Chevrolet is getting a page from your Porsche playbook. Its supercharged LT4 small-block V-8, with 650 hp and 650-pound-feet of torque, will function as the most effective engine General Motors has ever made. So do not think of an automatic, even if it's a common planetary gear kind rather than the more exotic dual clutch variety, as a disability the Z06 must endure.